10 Founders Under 30 Who Grew Their Startups To $100 Million+ Exits

We dug through recent and late tech bubble stars and found some truly impressive young founders.

A handful sold their companies for $100 million or more before the age of the 30.

Others took their companies public — also before the age of 30.

Aaron Patzer was 28 when he sold Mint.com for $170 million

Aaron Patzer graduated from Duke University in 2002. In 2007, he took home the $50,000 prize at TechCrunch 40 for his startup, Mint.com.

Mint is a financial tools and management platform that helps people keep track of their spending.

In September 2009, two years after its launch, Mint was acquired by Intuit for $170 million.

Max Levchin was 27 when PayPal IPO'd and 35 when he sold Slide to Google.

Max Levchin has a couple of successful startups under his belt.

In 1998, he cofounded a company that would be renamed PayPal. In February 2002, PayPal went public and was later bought by eBay. Levchin, who served as CEO, had a reported 2.3% stake, which was worth about $34 million.

In 2004, Levchin founded Slide, a platform for creating and sharing content. It was acquired by Google in August 2010 for $182 million.

Catherine and David Cook were 21 and 22 when the company they cofounded, MyYearbook, was acquired for $100 million in cash and stock.

In 2005, Catherine Cook and her brother David moved to a new high school. They felt out of place, and wanted a way to meet friends quickly. The developed MyYearbook, and it quickly spread to students across the nation.

They bought the whole company. It was a competitive situation between Idealab and LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, that at that time was trying to expand Sephora into the US and they only had one store in the US. And we had about double the traffic online as Sephora.com at that time. So, it was advantageous for LVMH to buy us to move us out of the way of Sephora. So they made the initial bid. Idealab outbid them, bought us for cash. Then eventually, there were a lot of things that happened. Subsequently, we actually ended up selling to LVMH after all. So, if you type in eve.com now it actually goes into Sephora after all. So, we actually sold the company twice. The first time was for about $100 million in cash to Idealab.

BONUS: Jared Hecht (24) and Steve Martocci (29) sold GroupMe for a near $100 million exit one year after its launch.

Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht cofounded group messaging service GroupMe last summer.